1923 Facts for Kids

1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar. The Julian calendar was made obsolete starting that year, though Eastern Orthodox churches still use the Julian Calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1920 1921 1922 – 1923 – 1924 1925 1926

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January 1 – Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larger companies
January 10 – Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel
January 11 – Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments
February 16 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun
February 22 – Barcelona (Catalonia): Albert Einstein visits the city, invited by the scientist Esteban Terradas i Illa, as part of the monografics course of High Studies and Exchange organized by the Mancomunitat de Catalunya and conducted by Rafael de Campalans.
March – Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on a Paris stage. Settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger, and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. Antonin Artaud played the part of Tiresias.
March 1 – USS Connecticut decommissioned
March 2 – Time Magazine hits newsstands for the first time
March 9 – Vladimir Lenin suffers a stroke, his third, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak; consequently he retires his position as Chairman of the Soviet government.
April – End of Irish Civil War
April 12 – Kandersteg International Scout Centre came into existence.
April 23 – Ceremonial inauguration of Gdynia Seaport
April 26 – Wedding of Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey
May 23 – Launch of Belgium's SABENA Airlines
May 27 – Ku Klux Klan defies law requiring publication of its members
June 9 – Military coup in Bulgaria – prime minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski is ousted (he is killed June 14)
June 18 – Etna volcano erupts – 60.000 made homeless